On today's Alley Oaf - 26 December 2020

 So now we do in fact mention, as I said yesterday, that it keeps the aphid for the honeydew. However there is another aphid that is a scientist and to talk to it, they get shrunk down even further. 🙄 What's next, getting down to the atomic level? And still without an enlarging ray. Let's hope they shrink into nothingness and end this whole sad affair.

https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/26

And in reference to yesterday's Merry Christmas strip, this is the first one of those, made as Hamlin turned the strip over to Graue in late 1971.